by Bevan Rees | Dec 11, 2019 | Career Coaching
It is traditional to start the new year with resolutions; the human brain works well with closure and rebeginnings. They mirror the annual cycle of death and rebirth seen in the passing of the seasons. We are programmed with this perspective, but do we get the most...
by Bevan Rees | Nov 15, 2019 | Leadership Coaching, Life Coaching, Mentoring
There’s an old joke about a man who’s walking home from work one night to find a fellow on his hands and knees beneath a sidewalk lamppost. ‘What are you doing?’ he asks. ‘I’ve lost my gold watch,’ says the frantic stranger, ‘it was my great-grandfather’s and my...
by Bevan Rees | Nov 8, 2019 | Career Coaching, Leadership Coaching, Life Coaching
Growing up, most of us were taught to use mnemonic devices to remember everything from the days of the week to historical figures to impossible-to-recall math rules. These techniques included songs, rhymes or visualizations, but the most common by far were acronyms....
by Bevan Rees | Nov 8, 2019 | Career Coaching, Leadership Coaching, Life Coaching
I grew up in a small town. I was five years old before I experienced the thrill of the big city. When I went there for the first time I was spellbound. Family lore says I spent an entire afternoon at a shopping mall riding elevators and escalators like I was at the...
by Koach.net | Dec 21, 2018 | Life Coaching
It’s the 21st of December and, in the northern hemisphere, the winter solstice. Eight miles from where I’m writing this, Stonehenge stands as a symbolic monument to this day and the transition from darkness to light which it represents. After today nights get shorter...